Helpful Websites for Teaching Mathematics

 http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/trig/index.html Contributed by Mrs. A. Mendelsohn

This site contains dynamic animations of various trigonometric functions and conic sections

http://enc.org/thisweek/calendar/

This site contains math & science lessons and activities - ready to use

Michaelene Meger, Ph. D.

Smile Program Mathematics Index

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/mathinde.html

This site is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons.  These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author.  The Mathematics lessons are divided into the following categories:  Geometry and Measurement, Patterns and Logic, Probability and Statistics, Recreational and Creative Math, Practical and Applied Math, Arithmetic, Graphs and Visuals, Algebra and Trigonometry and Miscellaneous.

The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library/topics/addition/

This site has hundreds of links that include mathematics topics such as arithmetic/early math and number theory, resources such as educational materials, and mathematics education topics such as teaching strategies.  It also has a "hot spot" for each month, which is generally great!

Alive maths | maths à vivre

http://math.ai.iit.nrc.ca/

Interactive microworlds for students to experiment with.  Students can save their work on a personal web page if they register on the site (for free), and keep a record of where they are and when they've visited pages.  The site also includes teacher support.  The information about this website was taken from:  http://mathforum.com/library/ed_topics/www_pedagogy/

LD In-Depth: Math Skills

http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/math_skills/math-skills.html

This site has articles about mathematics disabilities as well as how to teach mathematics to students with disabilities.

K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center

http://www.edc.org/mcc/currcula.htm

This site describes 13 National Science Foundation (NSF) - sponsored curricula approaches (standards-based mathematics instruction) in a unique way.  In an attempt to highlight some of the distinctive characteristics, they have summarized each curriculum to provide a basic overview of the approach, teacher support material, and student resources.  Publisher and developer contacts are also listed.  The 13 curricula are: Elementary -- Everyday Mathematics, Investigations in Number, Data and Space, Math Trailblazers, Middle School -- Connected Mathematics (CMP), Mathematics in Context (MiC), MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically, MATHThematics (STEM), Voyager Middle School Mathematics, High School -- Contemporary Mathematics in Context (Core-Plus) Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), MATH Connections: A Secondary Mathematics Core Curriculum, Mathematics: Modeling Our World (ARISE), SIMMS Integrated Mathematics: A Modeling Approach Using Technology. (Taken from the website)

K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center -- Key issues

http://www.edc.org/mcc/key.htm

This site presents papers about issues in mathematics education.  These papers explain in understandable language issues about which there is significant debate.  Issue papers addressing assessment and technology are available for downloading and printing. (take from the website).

E-Examples Index

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/index.htm

This site offers examples of how to incorporate the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards into your lessons.  

Coping With Math Anxiety -- Platonic Realm MiniText

http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/anxiety/#taking

Interesting site about math anxiety and how to cope with it.  Also has a link to mathematics encyclopedia, math quotes, mini texts, and other links.

TSBVI Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students

http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/

This site has a greate deal of information about teaching mathematics to students who are visually impaired.

Instruct

http://instruct.cms.uncwil.edu/standard.html

This is a very good site dealing with students who are having difficulty in mathematics.  It begins with the following topics:  Worthwhile mathematical tasks, Teacher's role in discourse, Tools for enhancing discourse, Student's role in discourse, Learning environment, Analysis of teaching and learning.  These are links to information about the topic and within the articles there are more links.

PBS Teacher Source -- Math

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

PBS math lessons and activities for all grade levels.  Also includes other content area lessons.

Balanced Assessment in Mathematics

http://balancedassessment.gse.harvard.edu/

This site includes many assessment tasks in mathematics and shows you how to implement them in the classroom

Mathematics Archives - K12 Internet Sites

http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html#topics

This site offers internet sites which contain significant collections of materials that can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level.  The sites are organized as follows:  Lessons Plans, Software, Topics in Mathematics, Contests and Competitions, Other. (taken from website)

Math, Math, and More Math

http://ra.terc.edu/

This site offers links: Mathematics Resources, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Articles, and Ask the Mathematics Experts

The concept ad Teaching of Place Value in Math

http://www.garlikov.com/PlaceValue.html

Good article about teaching place value

Primary Resources

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/index2.htm

Lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for primary teachers in math and other content areas (taken from website)

Dyscalculia Assistance Online

http://www.dyscalculia.org/Edu561.html

This is an online paper about dyscalculia which is the inability to do mathematics.

A Plus Math

http://www.aplusmath.com/

This website was developed to help student improve their math skills interactively.  It is really wonderful!!  This site has interactive flashcards and bingo games to develop and reinforce basic math facts.  All elementary students will enjoy this site.